Joseph W LeMaster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5507702 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph W LeMaster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph W |
| FAMILY NAME | LeMaster |
| SIGNATURE | LEMASTER J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3026-830X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Communities organizing to promote equity
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted rural and under-resourced urban communities in Kansas. The state's response to COVID-19 has relied on a highly decentralized and underfunded public health system, with 100 local health departments in the state, few of which had prior experience engaging local community coalitions in a coordinated response to a public health crisis. Methods: To improve the capacity for local communi…
Local Health Equity Action Teams (LHEATS) as a Novel and Emerging Practice of the Communities Organizing to Promote Equity (Cope) Project in Kansas
The Communities Organizing to Promote Equity (COPE) Project was implemented in 20 counties across Kansas to build capacity to address health equity by forming local health equity action teams (LHEATS), hiring and training community health workers, facilitating state-wide learning collaboratives, and tailoring communication strategies. We conducted interviews and focus groups with project stakeholders who identified pragmatic recommendations relat…
Community Organizations, Local Health Equity Action Teams, and a Learning Collaborative to Address Covid-19 Disparities in Urban and Rural Communities
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics–Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Kansas worked with 10 Kansas counties from November 2020 through June 2022 to form local health equity action teams (LHEATs), develop COVID-19 testing strategies, foster communication about COVID-19, and share best practices through a learning collaborative. Participating counties documented 693 distinct COVID-19 testing and 178 communication activities. Although the intervention…
Refugee and migrants' involvement in participatory spaces in a US practice‐based research network study
BACKGROUND: Refugees and migrants face suboptimal involvement in spaces for primary healthcare decision-making. Given the rising numbers of resettled refugees and migrants in primary care settings in the United States, there is an urgent need for patient-centred outcome research in practice-based research networks (PBRNs) with diverse ethnolinguistic communities. This study explored whether researchers, clinicians and patients would achieve conse…
Understanding Medication Adherence in Bhutanese Refugees With Diabetes in a Midwestern City
INTRODUCTION: Bhutanese refugees have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes but are less likely to achieve medication adherence and glycemic control. The purpose of this project was to understand factors affecting diabetes medication adherence in this population. METHODOLOGY: This was a qualitative project using focus groups of adult Bhutanese refugees with type 2 diabetes ≥18 years old and hemoglobin A1C ≥8% and their caregivers from a family m…
The impact of economic recession on the health of migrant fathers over time
Understanding the relationship between economic conditions and health is complex and may be related to multiple dimensions of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. African families were already more likely to be disadvantaged prior to the recession and that pattern persisted during the recession. Further research on attrition rates of migrants in population cohort studies is needed and the development of effective strategies for recruitment,…
Participatory health research with migrants
PPIE in intervention studies
Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials and other intervention studies demonstrate that patient and public involvement and engagement in research studies promote cultural appropriateness; enhance recruitment; build community stakeholder capacity; assist teams in working through conflicts; and lead to higher quality outcome data and sustainability of the partnership after funding completes.1 Use of participatory groups may lead to more …
Participatory implementation research in the field of migrant health
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore whether positive impacts were sustained and unanticipated ripple effects had occurred four years after the implementation of interventions to improve cross-cultural communication in primary care. BACKGROUND: Sustaining the implementation of change using complex interventions is challenging. The EU-funded "RESTORE" study implemented guidelines and training on cross-cultural communication in five Primary Care …
Collecting and using patient experience data
Data on patient and public involvement vary in the extent and consistency in which they are collected and used across contexts (clinical, research and service improvement). Collection and analysis of patient experience data in research and in service development/improvement have different purposes. Such data may not always be translated or utilized well when the aim is service improvement.1-3 The reasons for this include the following: how the da…
Ethnicity recording in health and social care data collections in Ireland
Despite strong policy and legal imperatives, there is limited data collection of ethnicity in health and social care data collections in Ireland. While there are some examples of where differences by ethnicity have been identified and acted upon, a more coordinated and comprehensive approach to the collection, quality and utilization of ethnicity data is needed to promote health equity
Patient vs. Community Engagement
BACKGROUND: The value proposition of including patients at each step of the research process is that patient perspectives and preferences can have a positive impact on both the science and the outcomes of comparative effectiveness research. How to accomplish engagement and the extent to which approaches to community engagement inform strategies for effective patient engagement need to be examined to address conducting and accelerating comparative…
Acculturation and post-migration psychological symptoms among Iraqi refugees
Refugees frequently experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression, which impede their acculturation in the new host country where they are resettling. There are few longitudinal studies investigating predictors of mental health and acculturation during the early postmigration period. We conducted a longitudinal study of 298 Iraqi refugees, assessing them upon arrival to the U.S. and 1 year after migration. Premigration trauma was ass…
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Patient vs. Community Engagement
BACKGROUND: The value proposition of including patients at each step of the research process is that patient perspectives and preferences can have a positive impact on both the science and the outcomes of comparative effectiveness research. How to accomplish engagement and the extent to which approaches to community engagement inform strategies for effective patient engagement need to be examined to address conducting and accelerating comparative…
Acculturation and post-migration psychological symptoms among Iraqi refugees
Refugees frequently experience symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression, which impede their acculturation in the new host country where they are resettling. There are few longitudinal studies investigating predictors of mental health and acculturation during the early postmigration period. We conducted a longitudinal study of 298 Iraqi refugees, assessing them upon arrival to the U.S. and 1 year after migration. Premigration trauma was ass…
Collecting and using patient experience data
Data on patient and public involvement vary in the extent and consistency in which they are collected and used across contexts (clinical, research and service improvement). Collection and analysis of patient experience data in research and in service development/improvement have different purposes. Such data may not always be translated or utilized well when the aim is service improvement.1-3 The reasons for this include the following: how the da…
Ethnicity recording in health and social care data collections in Ireland
Despite strong policy and legal imperatives, there is limited data collection of ethnicity in health and social care data collections in Ireland. While there are some examples of where differences by ethnicity have been identified and acted upon, a more coordinated and comprehensive approach to the collection, quality and utilization of ethnicity data is needed to promote health equity
PPIE in intervention studies
Systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials and other intervention studies demonstrate that patient and public involvement and engagement in research studies promote cultural appropriateness; enhance recruitment; build community stakeholder capacity; assist teams in working through conflicts; and lead to higher quality outcome data and sustainability of the partnership after funding completes.1 Use of participatory groups may lead to more …
Participatory implementation research in the field of migrant health
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore whether positive impacts were sustained and unanticipated ripple effects had occurred four years after the implementation of interventions to improve cross-cultural communication in primary care. BACKGROUND: Sustaining the implementation of change using complex interventions is challenging. The EU-funded "RESTORE" study implemented guidelines and training on cross-cultural communication in five Primary Care …
Participatory health research with migrants
Understanding Medication Adherence in Bhutanese Refugees With Diabetes in a Midwestern City
INTRODUCTION: Bhutanese refugees have a higher prevalence of type 2 diabetes but are less likely to achieve medication adherence and glycemic control. The purpose of this project was to understand factors affecting diabetes medication adherence in this population. METHODOLOGY: This was a qualitative project using focus groups of adult Bhutanese refugees with type 2 diabetes ≥18 years old and hemoglobin A1C ≥8% and their caregivers from a family m…
The impact of economic recession on the health of migrant fathers over time
Understanding the relationship between economic conditions and health is complex and may be related to multiple dimensions of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. African families were already more likely to be disadvantaged prior to the recession and that pattern persisted during the recession. Further research on attrition rates of migrants in population cohort studies is needed and the development of effective strategies for recruitment,…
Refugee and migrants' involvement in participatory spaces in a US practice‐based research network study
BACKGROUND: Refugees and migrants face suboptimal involvement in spaces for primary healthcare decision-making. Given the rising numbers of resettled refugees and migrants in primary care settings in the United States, there is an urgent need for patient-centred outcome research in practice-based research networks (PBRNs) with diverse ethnolinguistic communities. This study explored whether researchers, clinicians and patients would achieve conse…
Communities organizing to promote equity
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted rural and under-resourced urban communities in Kansas. The state's response to COVID-19 has relied on a highly decentralized and underfunded public health system, with 100 local health departments in the state, few of which had prior experience engaging local community coalitions in a coordinated response to a public health crisis. Methods: To improve the capacity for local communi…
Local Health Equity Action Teams (LHEATS) as a Novel and Emerging Practice of the Communities Organizing to Promote Equity (Cope) Project in Kansas
The Communities Organizing to Promote Equity (COPE) Project was implemented in 20 counties across Kansas to build capacity to address health equity by forming local health equity action teams (LHEATS), hiring and training community health workers, facilitating state-wide learning collaboratives, and tailoring communication strategies. We conducted interviews and focus groups with project stakeholders who identified pragmatic recommendations relat…
Community Organizations, Local Health Equity Action Teams, and a Learning Collaborative to Address Covid-19 Disparities in Urban and Rural Communities
Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics–Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) Kansas worked with 10 Kansas counties from November 2020 through June 2022 to form local health equity action teams (LHEATs), develop COVID-19 testing strategies, foster communication about COVID-19, and share best practices through a learning collaborative. Participating counties documented 693 distinct COVID-19 testing and 178 communication activities. Although the intervention…
Medicine (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Health Policy Implementation Science (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public health (5 works)